Individual and Class in D.H.Lawrence Novel "Lady Chatterley’s Lover"

Eseja rakstīta LU Moderno Valodu fakultātes Angļu Filoloģijas kursam Postmodernisma un Modernisma Literatūra (pasniedzējs E. Ošiņš). Lawrence points out his own views on the working classes and prejudices using some colorful, direct and lengthy conversations about socialism and wealth between the characters of the book. Therefore, it is quite possible one might find the conversations between the three main characters (the groundskeeper, Lady Chatterley and Clifford) to be a particularly pertinent commentary on the social and political environment of the time for the author does pay a lot attention to the social background and the class differences. To represent colorful views on the social class differences first of all the author needs essentially bright and remarkable individuals – characters that are capable of being the messenger. Therefore the triangle between Connie, Clifford and Mellor’s is not all about love, passion, dedication. It’s the never-ending social class gap and prejudices. Connie – the individual that did represent the awareness of the growing upper class shallowness which in fact were one of the obvious reasons of her almost-going-insane state of mind for life with Clifford and his books, books that did not really exist was “like beating her head against a stone”.